Policy GCGA

POLICY: GCGA

EFFECTIVE DATE: 12/10/14

CANCELS SHEET DATED: 5/2/07, 3/1/06, 11/5/03, 7/16/97,
9/2/87 (GCEB)

REVIEWED BY POLICY COMMITTEE: 10/2/16

SUBSTITUTE
TEACHERS

Substitute teachers may serve on a day-to-day basis to fill
short-term classroom teaching or instructional vacancies caused by the absence,
resignation, inability to employ or termination of a certified teacher or
educational specialist.

QUALIFICATIONS:

A.) All substitute teachers shall be approved
by the Maine Department of Education.

B.) Certified teachers may substitute outside
the scope of their certification for not more than ninety (90) teaching days in
any one teaching assignment.

C.) Persons having two or more years of
college preparation may serve as substitute teachers for not more than sixty
(60) teaching days in any one teaching assignment.

D.) Teaching days shall include consecutive and
non-consecutive days in the same teaching assignment during a school year.

REQUIREMENTS:

A.) All potential substitutes must file acompleteapplication packet obtained from the
Superintendent’s Office.

B.) All substitutes must be fingerprinted and
receive a criminal history records check certification from the Department of
Education.

C.) All substitutes must annually sign and return a
Reasonable Assurance of Employment in order to be retained on the Substitute
List.